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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."
"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
"Too much thought can find fault in anything, even if there is no fault to be found."
"Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter."
"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts."
"A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts."
"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."
Explore more quotes by Albert Szent Gyorgyi
"So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function."
"I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy."
"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought."
"A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure."
"Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend."
"The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take."
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